Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1887-07-23
ULsvsLASD's PARAiOk ssCOKD.

tie Has Approved more special Prnsion Acts
Than any Other President
FROM tho New York Herald.
A an earnest that the president In In har-
mony with the loyal sentiment ot the cpun
try and not IN conflict with the Grant Army
of the Republic or soldiers interest, the fol.
lowing figures are given from official sources
AMI show n record uuiua,ched IN tho history
ot pension legislation
During Grants first administration 32i
special acts were approved; during his Sec
ond, 25i. Hayes approved SIS special acts
During Arthur's administration iS6 were ap-
proved. In the hrst two years ot President
Cieveland's administration he Hrproued Si6,
or 10 per cent more than during Grants
first term, 30 per cent. more than during
Grants second term, and nearly double the
number, or LOO per cent more than in
Grants two terms President Cleveland has
approved lSi per cent more than Hayes and
over Il per cent more than Garfield and
Arthur combined. As u still further mani
iestation oi the attitude OF the present demo
cratic administration toward the tnion sol.
disrs the pay rolls Of the pension Office alone,
\ bureau more closely connected with the
soldiers OF the country than any other, show
that out OF 1881 employees Sii, or tiity-four
per cent are either soldiers or sailors
widows, sons or daughters, while only 200
are civilians, most OF whom occupy the
minor positions, rs messengers, watchmen,
etc. Three hundred and seventy soldiers or
their kindred occupy the higher positions,
raging 81 100 aud upward, against ~! civil
isns, u difference In favor OF the soldiers OF
t~enty-sevan per cent
Out ot ilb appointments made 10y General
Black from March Il, l>sj, to June 80, lsS7,
30 were soldiers or soldiers kiuared and Isl
were clvilians-a net difference in favor OF
the soldier of forty-iour, or nearly twenty.
four per cent. Fifteen out of the eighteen
United States pension agents, receiving
salary OF Il ,uOO per annum each, are among
the hunter of eN.C Mon soldiers appointed,
and one is the widow OF bravo General Mul
lixsn, whose fame * associated " ith tho hat.
tle ut Lexington, Mo. The only two who
hold over from previous administrations are
distinguished eN. Union soldiers who have
been severely wounded. General Black has
appointed twenty nine eN-tni"n soldiers
in excess of tho total number dropped from
tho roll by death, discharge, Resignation or
otherwise, and this, with 80 employees less
than were on the rolls during tho last fiscal
year OF the previous administration, would
make u net difference In their favor of En,
which upon the basis of the total number
upon the pay rolls the last fiscal year would
leave At present almost twelve per cent more
soldiers, sailors, or their widows and kin
dre', than were ever upon its pay roll in the
history of the office.
1t would not seem that the first Democratic
al III In istralion since the war had neg elected
the soldier interests so far ~ concerns the
pension bureau, so closely associated with
their welfare. by the introduction OF sound
business principles into the management OF
the pension bureau more pensions have
been issued and the execution of the pension
laws has been fuller, more prompt and more
impartial than In any former admin istration.
For the first time in the history OF the gov
ernment the case of every applicant is either
disposed OF or actually under going consider
alton.